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lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
June 02 2009 16:32 GMT
#401
I vouch this thread, it's a good idea O_o
anyways can some1 offer me a seinen manga besides Berserk since i've already read it, I also don't want to read anything tahts on going with something like 300 chapters, thanks!
You can't fight the feeling.
King K. Rool
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada4408 Posts
June 02 2009 16:36 GMT
#402
On June 03 2009 01:32 lokiM wrote:
I vouch this thread, it's a good idea O_o
anyways can some1 offer me a seinen manga besides Berserk since i've already read it, I also don't want to read anything tahts on going with something like 300 chapters, thanks!

Blame?
samachking
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Bahrain4949 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 16:46:44
June 02 2009 16:40 GMT
#403
On June 03 2009 01:32 lokiM wrote:
I vouch this thread, it's a good idea O_o
anyways can some1 offer me a seinen manga besides Berserk since i've already read it, I also don't want to read anything tahts on going with something like 300 chapters, thanks!


20th Century Boys
Monster
Eternal Sabbath
Planetes
Akira
Blame
Biomega
Black Lagoon
Gantz

Edit:Definitely look into Sanctuary too, I forgot about it. Pretty good stuff
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense, or decency, or self preservation, but for friendliness."
lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
June 02 2009 16:42 GMT
#404
thanks will definitely check into these
You can't fight the feeling.
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 17:40:27
June 02 2009 17:36 GMT
#405
On June 03 2009 00:13 konadora wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:50 samachking wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:46 King K. Rool wrote:
On June 02 2009 16:04 samachking wrote:
I used to watch and read A LOT of Anime/manga 2-3 years ago, however, I stopped because I kind of grew out of it, I still read manga like Berserk and Ippo every once in a while to keep up. Can anyone give me any recommendations, I stopped watching I think 2007? Anyways here are my favorites:

Berserk
Hajime no Ippo
Monster
Gankutsuou
Texhnolyze
Planetes
Boogiepop Phantom
Honey and Clover
Mushishi

Reccomendations please

Planetes is such an awesome manga, and the anime was top-notch. Should be recommended more. I'd read Blade of the Immortal if I were you. Great seinen manga.

On June 02 2009 19:22 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 19:09 PH wrote:
Really? 'Cause when I watched it through, I couldn't wait for that arc to end. I liked it as a whole, but the way they panned it out was tedious for me.

On May 31 2009 10:58 feathers wrote:
[image loading]

lol...this pic...omg.

I wish I had this in my high school days when the anime nerds walked around campus with those things strapped to their backpacks. -____-;;

Every time I saw one of them, I had to struggle to repress violent urges.

I love anime, and probably watch just as much as any other anime dork, but I just don't understand how you can get so far in to the point that you lay down a massive shunt like that between yourself and the rest of society...

That's why I enjoy watching cosplayers and laugh at their retardedness

Unless they look pretty/cool.

Btw, in terms of random comedy:
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Cromartie High > Gintama

However in terms of awesomeness and comedy cromartie high>gintama>szs



Yup, Planetes is my favorite anime/manga. I watched the anime 2 times and read the manga like 4 times, really good stuff, heck I think I might rewatch it now. Awesome stuff. I was reccomended Vagabond and Blade of the immortal for seinen manga many times before, I only read 1 volume and did not read much more,I will give it another shot. Also Im sorry but I forgot to mention one of my favorites: I loved Kino's Journey too. To think of it, a light comedy wont be so bad, the ones I liked on the top of my head were GTO, School Rumble, Cromartie, Azumanga Diaoh was ok but not as good as the previous 3.

I found Blade of the Immortal anime horrible. Maybe I should try the manga.

Kino's Journey.. wow. I remember that from watching it on Animax rofl. That was pretty okay, a light-hearted show once in a while is good

Kino no Tabi, light hearted? I am not sure if we watched the same show, perhaps in the spirit of it being a parody in ways can we call it lighthearted, but the thematic elements were quite dark.

On June 02 2009 19:24 PH wrote:
BTW, while I'm procrastinating on my term paper, I might as well ask about this as it's been confusing the shit out of me for the longest time...

What the hell is the big deal about the Vocaloid program thing? It's a pretty cool idea (even though the voices sound like shit), but why are the characters and images from it hyped up so badly?

I see Vocaloid-related images fucking everywhere on English sites...which I don't get, because 99% of the English-speaking and anime-watching community cannot speak, read or write Japanese, so it's not like they'd be able to use the program, anyway.

So...could someone please explain this weird phenomenon to me? lol.

No one actually brought it up, so I guess I'll revive that line of though. To be honest, I am not too sure myself, but the doujins on the vocaloids tend to focus on the fact that they are programs who will do your bidding. Now, project that onto a real setting and you get something that a good amount of otakus dream for (probably). Absolutely no idea about why it shows up on English sites though, moe perhaps? To be fair, Miku (in particular, the others less so) does generate pretty neat pictures every so often since enough people poke at the topic.
samachking
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Bahrain4949 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 17:46:00
June 02 2009 17:43 GMT
#406
On June 03 2009 02:36 Ecael wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 00:13 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:50 samachking wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:46 King K. Rool wrote:
On June 02 2009 16:04 samachking wrote:
I used to watch and read A LOT of Anime/manga 2-3 years ago, however, I stopped because I kind of grew out of it, I still read manga like Berserk and Ippo every once in a while to keep up. Can anyone give me any recommendations, I stopped watching I think 2007? Anyways here are my favorites:

Berserk
Hajime no Ippo
Monster
Gankutsuou
Texhnolyze
Planetes
Boogiepop Phantom
Honey and Clover
Mushishi

Reccomendations please

Planetes is such an awesome manga, and the anime was top-notch. Should be recommended more. I'd read Blade of the Immortal if I were you. Great seinen manga.

On June 02 2009 19:22 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 19:09 PH wrote:
Really? 'Cause when I watched it through, I couldn't wait for that arc to end. I liked it as a whole, but the way they panned it out was tedious for me.

On May 31 2009 10:58 feathers wrote:
[image loading]

lol...this pic...omg.

I wish I had this in my high school days when the anime nerds walked around campus with those things strapped to their backpacks. -____-;;

Every time I saw one of them, I had to struggle to repress violent urges.

I love anime, and probably watch just as much as any other anime dork, but I just don't understand how you can get so far in to the point that you lay down a massive shunt like that between yourself and the rest of society...

That's why I enjoy watching cosplayers and laugh at their retardedness

Unless they look pretty/cool.

Btw, in terms of random comedy:
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Cromartie High > Gintama

However in terms of awesomeness and comedy cromartie high>gintama>szs



Yup, Planetes is my favorite anime/manga. I watched the anime 2 times and read the manga like 4 times, really good stuff, heck I think I might rewatch it now. Awesome stuff. I was reccomended Vagabond and Blade of the immortal for seinen manga many times before, I only read 1 volume and did not read much more,I will give it another shot. Also Im sorry but I forgot to mention one of my favorites: I loved Kino's Journey too. To think of it, a light comedy wont be so bad, the ones I liked on the top of my head were GTO, School Rumble, Cromartie, Azumanga Diaoh was ok but not as good as the previous 3.

I found Blade of the Immortal anime horrible. Maybe I should try the manga.

Kino's Journey.. wow. I remember that from watching it on Animax rofl. That was pretty okay, a light-hearted show once in a while is good

Kino no Tabi, light hearted? I am not sure if we watched the same show, perhaps in the spirit of it being a parody in ways can we call it lighthearted, but the thematic elements were quite dark.


It is defined not light hearted, Konadora mistook sentence transition, one fault of mine. Kino's journey is quite deep and philosophical with some very strong themes within each episode, some of the themes dark and relating to solitude, lack of communication, war,censorship,greed, every episode covered a lot of themes, but the overarching theme is definetly positive . But overall really great anime that I would recommend to everyone.

Edit:Konadora if you thought it was ok you might want to rewatch it again as you may have not appreciated it well enough.
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense, or decency, or self preservation, but for friendliness."
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
June 02 2009 20:09 GMT
#407
On June 03 2009 02:36 Ecael wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 00:13 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:50 samachking wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:46 King K. Rool wrote:
On June 02 2009 16:04 samachking wrote:
I used to watch and read A LOT of Anime/manga 2-3 years ago, however, I stopped because I kind of grew out of it, I still read manga like Berserk and Ippo every once in a while to keep up. Can anyone give me any recommendations, I stopped watching I think 2007? Anyways here are my favorites:

Berserk
Hajime no Ippo
Monster
Gankutsuou
Texhnolyze
Planetes
Boogiepop Phantom
Honey and Clover
Mushishi

Reccomendations please

Planetes is such an awesome manga, and the anime was top-notch. Should be recommended more. I'd read Blade of the Immortal if I were you. Great seinen manga.

On June 02 2009 19:22 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 19:09 PH wrote:
Really? 'Cause when I watched it through, I couldn't wait for that arc to end. I liked it as a whole, but the way they panned it out was tedious for me.

On May 31 2009 10:58 feathers wrote:
[image loading]

lol...this pic...omg.

I wish I had this in my high school days when the anime nerds walked around campus with those things strapped to their backpacks. -____-;;

Every time I saw one of them, I had to struggle to repress violent urges.

I love anime, and probably watch just as much as any other anime dork, but I just don't understand how you can get so far in to the point that you lay down a massive shunt like that between yourself and the rest of society...

That's why I enjoy watching cosplayers and laugh at their retardedness

Unless they look pretty/cool.

Btw, in terms of random comedy:
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Cromartie High > Gintama

However in terms of awesomeness and comedy cromartie high>gintama>szs



Yup, Planetes is my favorite anime/manga. I watched the anime 2 times and read the manga like 4 times, really good stuff, heck I think I might rewatch it now. Awesome stuff. I was reccomended Vagabond and Blade of the immortal for seinen manga many times before, I only read 1 volume and did not read much more,I will give it another shot. Also Im sorry but I forgot to mention one of my favorites: I loved Kino's Journey too. To think of it, a light comedy wont be so bad, the ones I liked on the top of my head were GTO, School Rumble, Cromartie, Azumanga Diaoh was ok but not as good as the previous 3.

I found Blade of the Immortal anime horrible. Maybe I should try the manga.

Kino's Journey.. wow. I remember that from watching it on Animax rofl. That was pretty okay, a light-hearted show once in a while is good

Kino no Tabi, light hearted? I am not sure if we watched the same show, perhaps in the spirit of it being a parody in ways can we call it lighthearted, but the thematic elements were quite dark.

Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 19:24 PH wrote:
BTW, while I'm procrastinating on my term paper, I might as well ask about this as it's been confusing the shit out of me for the longest time...

What the hell is the big deal about the Vocaloid program thing? It's a pretty cool idea (even though the voices sound like shit), but why are the characters and images from it hyped up so badly?

I see Vocaloid-related images fucking everywhere on English sites...which I don't get, because 99% of the English-speaking and anime-watching community cannot speak, read or write Japanese, so it's not like they'd be able to use the program, anyway.

So...could someone please explain this weird phenomenon to me? lol.

No one actually brought it up, so I guess I'll revive that line of though. To be honest, I am not too sure myself, but the doujins on the vocaloids tend to focus on the fact that they are programs who will do your bidding. Now, project that onto a real setting and you get something that a good amount of otakus dream for (probably). Absolutely no idea about why it shows up on English sites though, moe perhaps? To be fair, Miku (in particular, the others less so) does generate pretty neat pictures every so often since enough people poke at the topic.

Well for Japanese people, I can understand. It sounds like a fucking cool program, and I wish there were an English version I could play around with.

I just don't get why it's so big in the English-speaking world. But I guess it's as you say...moe character designs and ear pleasing (annoying for me...except for one that I thought was nice) songs. Like I said before, I just had no idea that character design alone could carry something so far.
Hello
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 20:36:19
June 02 2009 20:32 GMT
#408
On June 03 2009 05:09 PH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 02:36 Ecael wrote:
On June 03 2009 00:13 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:50 samachking wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:46 King K. Rool wrote:
On June 02 2009 16:04 samachking wrote:
I used to watch and read A LOT of Anime/manga 2-3 years ago, however, I stopped because I kind of grew out of it, I still read manga like Berserk and Ippo every once in a while to keep up. Can anyone give me any recommendations, I stopped watching I think 2007? Anyways here are my favorites:

Berserk
Hajime no Ippo
Monster
Gankutsuou
Texhnolyze
Planetes
Boogiepop Phantom
Honey and Clover
Mushishi

Reccomendations please

Planetes is such an awesome manga, and the anime was top-notch. Should be recommended more. I'd read Blade of the Immortal if I were you. Great seinen manga.

On June 02 2009 19:22 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 19:09 PH wrote:
Really? 'Cause when I watched it through, I couldn't wait for that arc to end. I liked it as a whole, but the way they panned it out was tedious for me.

On May 31 2009 10:58 feathers wrote:
[image loading]

lol...this pic...omg.

I wish I had this in my high school days when the anime nerds walked around campus with those things strapped to their backpacks. -____-;;

Every time I saw one of them, I had to struggle to repress violent urges.

I love anime, and probably watch just as much as any other anime dork, but I just don't understand how you can get so far in to the point that you lay down a massive shunt like that between yourself and the rest of society...

That's why I enjoy watching cosplayers and laugh at their retardedness

Unless they look pretty/cool.

Btw, in terms of random comedy:
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Cromartie High > Gintama

However in terms of awesomeness and comedy cromartie high>gintama>szs



Yup, Planetes is my favorite anime/manga. I watched the anime 2 times and read the manga like 4 times, really good stuff, heck I think I might rewatch it now. Awesome stuff. I was reccomended Vagabond and Blade of the immortal for seinen manga many times before, I only read 1 volume and did not read much more,I will give it another shot. Also Im sorry but I forgot to mention one of my favorites: I loved Kino's Journey too. To think of it, a light comedy wont be so bad, the ones I liked on the top of my head were GTO, School Rumble, Cromartie, Azumanga Diaoh was ok but not as good as the previous 3.

I found Blade of the Immortal anime horrible. Maybe I should try the manga.

Kino's Journey.. wow. I remember that from watching it on Animax rofl. That was pretty okay, a light-hearted show once in a while is good

Kino no Tabi, light hearted? I am not sure if we watched the same show, perhaps in the spirit of it being a parody in ways can we call it lighthearted, but the thematic elements were quite dark.

On June 02 2009 19:24 PH wrote:
BTW, while I'm procrastinating on my term paper, I might as well ask about this as it's been confusing the shit out of me for the longest time...

What the hell is the big deal about the Vocaloid program thing? It's a pretty cool idea (even though the voices sound like shit), but why are the characters and images from it hyped up so badly?

I see Vocaloid-related images fucking everywhere on English sites...which I don't get, because 99% of the English-speaking and anime-watching community cannot speak, read or write Japanese, so it's not like they'd be able to use the program, anyway.

So...could someone please explain this weird phenomenon to me? lol.

No one actually brought it up, so I guess I'll revive that line of though. To be honest, I am not too sure myself, but the doujins on the vocaloids tend to focus on the fact that they are programs who will do your bidding. Now, project that onto a real setting and you get something that a good amount of otakus dream for (probably). Absolutely no idea about why it shows up on English sites though, moe perhaps? To be fair, Miku (in particular, the others less so) does generate pretty neat pictures every so often since enough people poke at the topic.

Well for Japanese people, I can understand. It sounds like a fucking cool program, and I wish there were an English version I could play around with.

I just don't get why it's so big in the English-speaking world. But I guess it's as you say...moe character designs and ear pleasing (annoying for me...except for one that I thought was nice) songs. Like I said before, I just had no idea that character design alone could carry something so far.

It does look like a pretty neat program, though seeing it in English would be pretty unlikely imo. I do recall there being some Miku song done with everything in Japanese-English, sounded quite hilarious because it was so freaking odd. :p

In the English speaking world, though...meh? Hype and moe carries quite a long way even here, half of the hype about like, Higurashi or Lucky Star or even k-on are hype generated there and transmitted here. Someone mentioned 毒電波 earlier, that might as well as be the reason for all I know -.- Miku songs...can be good, or if nothing else, highly entertaining, if not pleasing to the ears, but the character design probably did the most. In terms of Japan though, imo, it is turning into a phenomenon quite similar to that of Touhou, where fan popularity and continued production of fan-made material continues its popularity and spread it to other non-fans.

On June 03 2009 02:43 samachking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 02:36 Ecael wrote:
On June 03 2009 00:13 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:50 samachking wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:46 King K. Rool wrote:
On June 02 2009 16:04 samachking wrote:
I used to watch and read A LOT of Anime/manga 2-3 years ago, however, I stopped because I kind of grew out of it, I still read manga like Berserk and Ippo every once in a while to keep up. Can anyone give me any recommendations, I stopped watching I think 2007? Anyways here are my favorites:

Berserk
Hajime no Ippo
Monster
Gankutsuou
Texhnolyze
Planetes
Boogiepop Phantom
Honey and Clover
Mushishi

Reccomendations please

Planetes is such an awesome manga, and the anime was top-notch. Should be recommended more. I'd read Blade of the Immortal if I were you. Great seinen manga.

On June 02 2009 19:22 konadora wrote:
On June 02 2009 19:09 PH wrote:
Really? 'Cause when I watched it through, I couldn't wait for that arc to end. I liked it as a whole, but the way they panned it out was tedious for me.

On May 31 2009 10:58 feathers wrote:
[image loading]

lol...this pic...omg.

I wish I had this in my high school days when the anime nerds walked around campus with those things strapped to their backpacks. -____-;;

Every time I saw one of them, I had to struggle to repress violent urges.

I love anime, and probably watch just as much as any other anime dork, but I just don't understand how you can get so far in to the point that you lay down a massive shunt like that between yourself and the rest of society...

That's why I enjoy watching cosplayers and laugh at their retardedness

Unless they look pretty/cool.

Btw, in terms of random comedy:
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Cromartie High > Gintama

However in terms of awesomeness and comedy cromartie high>gintama>szs



Yup, Planetes is my favorite anime/manga. I watched the anime 2 times and read the manga like 4 times, really good stuff, heck I think I might rewatch it now. Awesome stuff. I was reccomended Vagabond and Blade of the immortal for seinen manga many times before, I only read 1 volume and did not read much more,I will give it another shot. Also Im sorry but I forgot to mention one of my favorites: I loved Kino's Journey too. To think of it, a light comedy wont be so bad, the ones I liked on the top of my head were GTO, School Rumble, Cromartie, Azumanga Diaoh was ok but not as good as the previous 3.

I found Blade of the Immortal anime horrible. Maybe I should try the manga.

Kino's Journey.. wow. I remember that from watching it on Animax rofl. That was pretty okay, a light-hearted show once in a while is good

Kino no Tabi, light hearted? I am not sure if we watched the same show, perhaps in the spirit of it being a parody in ways can we call it lighthearted, but the thematic elements were quite dark.


It is defined not light hearted, Konadora mistook sentence transition, one fault of mine. Kino's journey is quite deep and philosophical with some very strong themes within each episode, some of the themes dark and relating to solitude, lack of communication, war,censorship,greed, every episode covered a lot of themes, but the overarching theme is definetly positive . But overall really great anime that I would recommend to everyone.

Edit:Konadora if you thought it was ok you might want to rewatch it again as you may have not appreciated it well enough.

Bah I had a post typed up and lost it somewhere when I was editing ><

With Kino no Tabi, which I also recommend to everyone, as the themes are quite universal, I'd like to say that if possible, look for the light novels. If memory serves, there are fan translation projects for it (there might be official commercial works, but I can't recall offhand). One of the biggest strength of the series is in the way the narrative shifts to fit the situation, something that the anime worked on but could not exploit as well as text could as a medium. One of the stories, largely about free speech, was pretty much done in a series of mock newspaper articles and columns, something that we simply won't see in an anime. So if possible, after trying the anime and perhaps liking it, people might want to consider looking for the light novel versions.
RivetHead
Profile Joined March 2005
United States842 Posts
June 02 2009 22:15 GMT
#409
On June 03 2009 01:32 lokiM wrote:
I vouch this thread, it's a good idea O_o
anyways can some1 offer me a seinen manga besides Berserk since i've already read it, I also don't want to read anything tahts on going with something like 300 chapters, thanks!


Read Shamo. Its serioiusly one of the most out there seinen manga i have ever read. Its about a guy who does brutal, badass karate with a mix of streetfighting. Now at this point its invovling other martial arts, and its all very interesting, realistic, and dark.
I *heart* bisu, nada, mind, and the lakers
Dark.Carnival
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5095 Posts
June 02 2009 22:18 GMT
#410
so, anyone else enjoying the new FMAs pace? compared to the first anime, it's been moving mucho faster, which i kinda like.
@QxGDarkCell ._.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
June 02 2009 22:23 GMT
#411
I haven't watched since episode 3.
I don't want to see the chimera. =(!!!!!
Guess I'll start watching that today though seeing as I lag.
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mcgriddle
Profile Joined April 2009
United States253 Posts
June 02 2009 22:49 GMT
#412
On June 03 2009 07:18 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
so, anyone else enjoying the new FMAs pace? compared to the first anime, it's been moving mucho faster, which i kinda like.


its ok... seems a bit redundant with the original- i didnt feel the original was too slow

unlike the new dragonball kai... which is AWESOME- each episode is like 20 episodes of the original dragonball z..
Reason obeys itself....and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
theconartist
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
62 Posts
June 02 2009 22:52 GMT
#413
sengoku basara and souten kouro subs being way behind schedule = suck and fail
<Patch> You never even hit A, tca <Patch> QQ, sounds like you just suck.
pokerface
Profile Joined April 2007
507 Posts
June 02 2009 23:10 GMT
#414
Hi boys and girls!

I turn to you with an odd request.Id like to read some description about a few anime ill list here.
As u can see from the Titles im more of a drama,indepth anime.-lover and one of my friend reccommended these to me.
What are your toughts? I would appreciate any feedback thx.

Boogiepop Phantom (Boogiepop wa Warawanai) TV 2000 12
Charcoal Feather Federation (Haibane Renmei) TV 2002 13
Claws of a beast (Kemonozume) TV 2006 13
Kaiba TV 2008 12
Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) TV 1999-2000 13
Paranoia Agent (Mousou Dairinin) TV 2004 13
rgfdxm
Profile Joined December 2006
United States239 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 23:32:05
June 02 2009 23:27 GMT
#415
I really liked Paranoia Agent a lot. It's my favorite anime. I don't really want to describe it since I don't like spoilers of any kind, and it's only 13 episodes, but you do have to watch the whole thing.

I know a lot of people are big fans of Now and Then, Here and There, but I didn't like it at all. It's one of my least favorite shows, in fact. In my opinion it undermined itself badly and failed to keep its themes consistent, which is suicide for a show that tries to be serious and dramatic. Once again I don't really want to be more specific, and it's also really short so you may want to give it a try anyway.

The others I haven't seen, but a friend whose taste I respect really liked Haibane Renmei.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66363 Posts
June 03 2009 00:17 GMT
#416
I said Kino's Journey was light hearted as in, if you compare it with something like Phantom (the more serious-plot stuff). Kino's Journey did focus on all those 'wonder-about-what-life-is' and stuff, but I didn't find it all-that-serious.

@Pokerface:
If you like drama, I suggest 'Kurosaki' or 'Bloody Monday'. Loved those a lot.
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TealLurker
Profile Joined June 2008
United States791 Posts
June 03 2009 00:31 GMT
#417
On June 03 2009 07:18 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
so, anyone else enjoying the new FMAs pace? compared to the first anime, it's been moving mucho faster, which i kinda like.

I think it's alright...as long as they don't rush everything. But I can't believe we're already at that point in the story. I'm referring to the upcoming episode 10, which was the equivalent to episode 25 in the other series. TT
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66363 Posts
June 03 2009 00:34 GMT
#418
On June 03 2009 09:31 TealLurker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 07:18 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
so, anyone else enjoying the new FMAs pace? compared to the first anime, it's been moving mucho faster, which i kinda like.

I think it's alright...as long as they don't rush everything. But I can't believe we're already at that point in the story. I'm referring to the upcoming episode 10, which was the equivalent to episode 25 in the other series. TT

Well, they do have to cover most of the manga plot so...

But they really need to stop doing exact scene-by-scene copy from the manga. They need to add a bit of variation =.="
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triangle
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3803 Posts
June 03 2009 00:36 GMT
#419
The others I haven't seen, but a friend whose taste I respect really liked Haibane Renmei.
Haibane Renmei is awesome.

I'm actually watching paranoia agent right now. On ep 9 or something.
Also known as waterfall / w4terfall
TealLurker
Profile Joined June 2008
United States791 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-03 00:55:49
June 03 2009 00:54 GMT
#420
On June 03 2009 09:34 konadora wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 03 2009 09:31 TealLurker wrote:
On June 03 2009 07:18 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
so, anyone else enjoying the new FMAs pace? compared to the first anime, it's been moving mucho faster, which i kinda like.

I think it's alright...as long as they don't rush everything. But I can't believe we're already at that point in the story. I'm referring to the upcoming episode 10, which was the equivalent to episode 25 in the other series. TT

Well, they do have to cover most of the manga plot so...

But they really need to stop doing exact scene-by-scene copy from the manga. They need to add a bit of variation =.="

I understand that. But Hughes, + Show Spoiler +
I hardly knew ye! ELICIA-CHAN!!!! =(
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